Bothayna al-Essa (Buthaina al-Issa)

Bothayna al-Essa is a Kuwaiti writer, born
on 3 September, 1982. She obtained her degree in Finance from the
College of Business Administration at the University of Kuwait in 2005 and
later received her Masters in 2007.

She has published five novels and one
collection of essays, with the first novel, Irtitam
la yusma‘ lahu dawii (A Soundless Collision), appearing in 2004. She has
been awarded many national and international prizes for her work, including being longlisted for the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. She is a wife
and mother and government employee.